How Shyness Affects Learning Spoken and Written Language
When a child is shame-averse to expressing what they are reading, they are, necessarily, less able to learn to read.
mind-shame
Do you see what I see? The Child, the Child…
What we call their improficiencies are ours. Proficiency stats are mirrors that say more about our proficiency in stewarding their learning than they say about their capacity for learning.
Re: Dyslexics suffer from a slower processor
This is an important step towards better understanding the underlying processing issues involved in ‘reading improficiency’ (affecting 6 in 10) as well as ‘dyslexia’ (affecting 1 in 10)
TED Talk: Shame Disabled Learning in Culture of Medicine
I experienced… the unhealthy shame that exists in our culture of medicine — where I felt alone, isolated, not feeling the healthy kind of shame that you feel, because you can’t talk about it with your colleagues.
N.Y. Times: Doctors Suffer From Shame Disabled Learning Too
Until we attend to the culture of shame that surrounds learning errors, we will be only nipping at the edges of one of the greatest threats to our children’s education.
MUTISM & MIND-SHAME
Refusing to speak or speaking in a whisper spares the child from the possible humiliation or embarrassment of saying the “wrong” thing.
Superintendents: Are you “leading your teacher’s learning” or “training” them?
Buying the ‘right’ program and training teachers to use it is not only insufficient, it misorients a school system’s learning.
Research: Investigating the Literacy – Mental Health Relationship
Research: mental health effects of feeling chronically improficient in the skill areas most important to success in school
Update: Children of the Code: CHANGING TRAJECTORIES – the Final Chapter
“CHANGING TRAJECTORIES” is the final chapter of Phase I of COTC and includes our suggestions and tips for improving the learning trajectories of struggling readers.
Major Update to Children of the Code – Two New Video Chapters
The Children of the Code site has been upgraded to much higher quality videos that can be run on your tablets, smartphones, etc. ++ Two new chapters: “What is Reading?” and “Paradigm Inertia”